Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #4
In "One Night of Crime!", Professor Dorry Leaf—haunted by the memory of his parents' deaths in a Pacific island earthquake—fights to protect his newly secured seismographic observatory at Pacific Coast University. When a gang of criminals known as the Looters learns he can predict quakes, they target him, hoping to exploit his foresight for profit. Win Mortimer’s dynamic art and Ira Schnapp’s crisp lettering bring this classic mystery to life, while J. Bone and Jack Burnley’s cover captures the tension of a city on the edge.
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Seeing both of his parents killed in an earthquake on a small Pacific island, Dorry Leaf becomes an expert on these phenomnia, and is offered a post at Pacific Coast University to oversee a seismographic observatory that he is determined to make quake-proof! However, crooks become interested when they discover that the Professor can predict in advance where quakes will occur, and the Looters, as they are known, hope to cash in on that knowledge.
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